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02 Mar After 1,500 hours of training, Pritzker speaks to prison barber school grads

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From The Center Square [1]: “It’s good that Illinois is training people for a job that they can work in after prison because too many times we train them for professions they can’t legally work in,” said Shoshana Weissmann, a fellow with the nonprofit R Street...

01 Mar Why Liberty Is a “Life Philosophy” | Lawrence W. Reed

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Editor’s Note: This essay is drawn from the new, second edition of Lawrence Reed’s book, Are We Good Enough for Liberty? Author's Note: In a previous essay, I challenged my readers to ask themselves, “Are we good enough for liberty?” In the following piece, I will ask...

01 Mar Economic growth shouldn’t need a defense. But here you go, again.

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By James Pethokoukis One might think that long-lasting and sustainable economic growth, driven by technological improvement and innovation, would be an obviously awesome thing. It helps humanity live longer and better. The impact of rapid vaccine development and innovation provides real-time evidence of that. Progress even...

01 Mar We Can Still Have a Century of Liberty

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– February 28, 2021 Reading Time: 6 minutes In the aftermath of a pretty statist revolution and a major step back for individual freedom (read: the pandemic), it’s time for some optimism. Many philosophers and historians have talked about the ‘Zeitgeist’ of an era – the...

01 Mar Vaccine Central Planning Fails Too

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Three and a half months have passed since we first received news of a highly effective Covid-19 vaccination, yet in all but a few locales the rollout has proceeded at a snail’s pace. Part of the lag comes from an understandable push to prioritize the...

01 Mar The Story of Vicky

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The Story of Vicky Donald J. Boudreaux When Vicky was 30 years old, her two dearest friends were riding in an automobile when another car, operated by a negligent driver, ran a red light and crashed into her friends’ car. One of Vicky’s friends was instantly killed....

01 Mar Single-Minded Obsessions are Irrational and Lethal

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn my latest column for AIER I try my hand at writing fiction – yet fiction that is not very different from today’s reality. It’s a (very) short story of a woman who is single-mindedly obsessed with avoiding one particular danger. A slice: Vicky...

01 Mar Liberty is Meaningless without Responsibility

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What does a free society look like to you? Is it an anarcho-capitalist utopia where individuals are free to shoot fully-automatic AK-47s at their 1040 EZs in their private marijuana fields? Is it a harmonious society free from bureaucratic central planning, where people freely trade...

28 Feb The Danger of the Administrative State

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Lockdowns should have shown every American just how tyrannical and unreasonable our leaders can be. There are elected leaders like Governor Cuomo who have acted as outright tyrants, alienating everyone, even those in his own party. Then there are the unelected bureaucrats who wave away...

28 Feb Dear Students: Here Are Ten Ways To Get Your Financial House In Order

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Recently, a student asked me for some tips on what to say about personal finance to her sorority. Here’s a slightly-edited version of my reply. Count the Cost Accurately. You might think you’re saving money when you’re not. Unless you really enjoy cooking, you should probably have a...

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